Thursday, April 26, 2018

The Chernobyl
disaster, also referred to as the Chernobyl accident, was a catastrophic nuclear accident. It
occurred on 26 April 1986 in the No.4 light water graphite moderated reactor at
the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the now-abandoned town of Pripyat, in
northern part of Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union,
approximately 104 km (65 mi) north of Kiev. On that very day a routine safety
test at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine spiraled out of control.
Follow the dramatic events that led to the world's worst civilian nuclear
disaster.